The Explosion in Costs & Timelines for American Transit Projects

Costs have been rising and timelines lengthening to infuriating extremes for transit projects in the US. What’s causing this, and how can it be solved?

Getting Back on Track: https://www.law.berkeley.edu/research...
Transit Costs Project: https://marroninstitute.nyu.edu/initi...
Vice Motherboard article on Citizen Voice: https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7z5j...

Chapters
0:00 Intro
2:46 The Scale of the Problem
4:17 Transit Neophytes
5:15 Soft Cost Explosion
6:53 Contingencies
11:43 Political Concessions
13:12 Summary So Far
15:53 Citizen Voice and CEQA
21:21 Caltrans
22:21 Solutions

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Any corrections or additions will be in a pinned comment. Thanks to Ethan Elkind and Alon Levy for their time and assistance!

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